Re: [ANN] Guile-Parallel 1.0.0 released

[Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jan 2023, Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
>> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
>>
>>>> epoll is as I understand it linux only so that's not a reasonable
>>>> dependency.   fibers now works with libevent which wraps multiple
>>>> faclilities and is thus pretty portable.
>>>
>>> Guile-Fibers still uses epoll on Linux, on other systems it uses libevent.
>>
>> Understood - I just meant that fibers is now (at least 99% of the way)
>> to "broadly portable".
>>
>> I don't know the details of Olivier's question and libevent, but would
>> suggest that libevent does the sort of things that are needed and is the
>> standard portable approach and is thus worth a hard look as the
>> presumptive right answer, absent something better that only relies on
>> what POSIX requires (and what's on Hurd :-).
>
> Hmm from a description I see on Guix, libev has relative timers.  I
> don't know if it's portable like libevent though.  Will look at both
> thanks!

Well from my reading, it might be interesting to have a guile-libev.

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Olivier Dion
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